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Sign Language Interpreters

Sarah Bartow

Sarah Bartow
Sign Language Interpreters

Dear Colleagues,

Welcome to the Sign Language Interpreters Chapter website. Our members are nationally certified (ASL/English Interpreters or Certified Deaf Interpreters) and/or Associate members of the national certifying body and work under the auspices of the DOE's Office of Sign Language Interpreting Services based at 400 1st Ave., Manhattan. Our members advocate for and promote cross-cultural communication while providing interpreting services and outreach to the DOE community.

Our goal is to ensure that Deaf families, pedagogues and administrators, and the hearing individuals with whom they come into contact have linguistic access to each other throughout the DOE academic experience. We provide Deaf parents with the opportunity to participate fully in their children's academic lives and for Deaf staff to communicate with their hearing colleagues and with parents who do not use Sign Language.

Some of the sites where our members work provide:

  • American Sign Language evaluation of Deaf children in the system.
  • Outreach to parent coordinators, principals, schools and other departments within the DOE.

By raising awareness of the DOE's mandate to provide sign language interpreters, as well as informing schools how to request services and work with the interpreting process, our members bridge communication between the DOE and its Deaf families and staff.

The UFT Sign Language Interpreter Chapter’s members are committed to and take pride in providing top quality interpreting services to the DOE community.

In solidarity,

Sarah Bartow
Sign Language Interpreters Chapter Leader

Delegate Assembly delegate: Jina Porter

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